Post your 9 or 10 stop ND photos

And one more from the archives. With the B+W 10 stop.

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Treat me like a tourist wrote in post #11121399

Awesome shot, good subject for the mood you set.

What is the longest exposures you all have achieved using these 10-stops? 20 minutes? 30 minutes? More? I know we're all long exposure junkies, so there's bound to be a few out there.

I briefly considered using it last night after dark (traffic trails in the city), but balked after realizing I would be there for an hour just to make one shot. In hindsight, such a shot might be worth doing....just not on such a cold and windy night.

ken2000ac wrote in post #11124479
What is the longest exposures you all have achieved using these 10-stops? 20 minutes? 30 minutes? More? I know we're all long exposure junkies, so there's bound to be a few out there.

I briefly considered using it last night after dark (traffic trails in the city), but balked after realizing I would be there for an hour just to make one shot. In hindsight, such a shot might be worth doing....just not on such a cold and windy night.

I don't think there's any real reason to use one of these at night. You'd just be punishing yourself by waiting forever to get a shot that you could easily get without the filter.

CaptainTonus wrote in post #11125136
I don't think there's any real reason to use one of these at night. You'd just be punishing yourself by waiting forever to get a shot that you could easily get without the filter.

Of course there are. Plenty of people use ND's at night, it's just that these 10-stops are not as common. More traffic and movement than a few minutes can give, or to use a large aperture for thin DOF, for instance.

In any case, using them at night wasn't the question. The question was what are the longest exposures that members have used with them. Day or night.

ken2000ac wrote in post #11124479
What is the longest exposures you all have achieved using these 10-stops? 20 minutes? 30 minutes? More? I know we're all long exposure junkies, so there's bound to be a few out there.

I briefly considered using it last night after dark (traffic trails in the city), but balked after realizing I would be there for an hour just to make one shot. In hindsight, such a shot might be worth doing....just not on such a cold and windy night.

The image noise would be crazy I am sure. Any time I push the 5 min envelope I get hellatious noise out of my 40D ISO 100

This thread has ruined me...lol. I finally broke down to spend the $$$ on a few Lee filters and they are all on back order from 2 Filter, including the Big Stopper. Uggggg!

^ how long is your waiting time?

no really look like very long exp .. but this was minimum 15stops (big stopper, nd8 + GND.9

ken2000ac wrote in post #11124479
What is the longest exposures you all have achieved using these 10-stops? 20 minutes? 30 minutes? More? I know we're all long exposure junkies, so there's bound to be a few out there.

I briefly considered using it last night after dark (traffic trails in the city), but balked after realizing I would be there for an hour just to make one shot. In hindsight, such a shot might be worth doing....just not on such a cold and windy night.

I like long exposures too but, if you don't have a good NR workflow, the image can be a wash.

JennGrover wrote in post #11128534
This thread has ruined me...lol. I finally broke down to spend the $$$ on a few Lee filters and they are all on back order from 2 Filter, including the Big Stopper. Uggggg!

For everything they are saying 2-4 weeks, but I am suspicious that it could be longer...ugg.

Zepplinn wrote in post #11060525
Finally clean the dust of my 10 stopper. Taken in Reykjvik today.

Just browsed through the last 10-15 pages or so, tons of great shots but this one seems to draw me in for some reason. The light and dark creates a powerful image- Love it

Are these images SOOC for you guys, or do you have some heavy post-processing involved? The muted colors are still so vivid on some of them, and it makes me wonder if I can get similar effects with the 10-stop or need to do a ton of post work to get them to pop like a lot of these.

Cole_Schmitt wrote in post #11116110
Can't get enough of this picture.

Me too, but thats probably because I keep picturing my wife and I in that little tiki hut drinking something with an umbrella in it!

How can I learn to do this type of photography?